If you are Anne Rice,then of course, you are perfect!

[niankhsekhmet]

My thanks goes to copper_rose for pointing me toward the review of Anne Rice's latest book, "Blood Canticle" online. We already knew Anne was a little bit nuts, this rant she has written to defend her latest bit of dreck has proven it without a shadow of a doubt. Apparently, she thinks she is perfect, and does not need an editor. All I can say is....wow.


http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/customer-reviews/037541200X/ref=cm_rev_next/102-1905539-7390528?%5Fencoding=UTF8&customer-reviews.sort%5Fby=-SubmissionDate&n=283155&customer-reviews.start=11&me=ATVPDKIKX0DER

Comments

[kiya]

There are a couple of versions of "I'm perfect and do not need an editor" on the Nielsen Haydens' Auctorial Insanities shirt. (Which I'm gonna get as soon as I sell something.)

*digs through it to pull 'em out*

"I got a bad copyedit. No one shall ever touch my text again, no matter how much it needs it."

"I don't need editing anymore."

"Your editorial comments are brilliant. I adore them. No one else has ever understood my writing as well as you. I am now so paralysed that I cannot revise the book."

[ex-ulfhedna.livejournal.com]

That shirt made me giggle. There may yet be hope for my awful scribbling efforts! (And like you, as soon as my much-hyped, not-but-barely-started magnum opus sells for eleventy gabillion dollars, I will buy myself that shirt.)

:)

[kiya]

I believe the original of that was written as a post in TNH's weblog, but I can't find it on a casual google. . . ha, no, wait, it's here.

As she's an editor, she knows these things. :)

[ex-ulfhedna.livejournal.com]

Good gods, that woman needs to learn how to use the 'Enter' key...and how to take criticism. It's perfectly all right for people to have a beef with what one writes. Not everyone will like a given work (furthermore, this is a good thing; if everyone liked the same things and hated the same things, humanity would be downright disturbing). I have yet to even be published and I have already learned via the good graces of my wondrous and patient friends, that editing = good thing. Editing trims away the tallow and lets the better parts of the story shine through.

But yes, paragraphs. The woman needs to chill.

[ex-ulfhedna.livejournal.com]

I have already learned via the good graces of my wondrous and patient friends, that editing = good thing.

And I needed an extra comma in there somewhere. My point is duly made. ;)

[djebatihethert.livejournal.com]

That was extremely amusing. She needs a life that doesn't include figments of her imagination who go suckie suckie in the night. Good god.

[sekhmetmeset.livejournal.com]

You know actually, she is claiming (according to her recorded phone messages) that she has decided to stop the Vampire Chronicles and will be writing on the life of Jesus Christ.

(giggles) I think she's probably better at Vampires, but what do I know? I am a huge fan and will even admit I have all her books in triplicate and her autograph framed in my house, but geez. . .I think her switching to Christian writing is silly, considering her style. (especially if you've read her A.N. Roquelaire books) I guess in a way, I'd rather see her continue Vampires and Witches than start writing about Jesus.

Love ya,
Meset

[nehmet.livejournal.com]

She needs a life that doesn't include figments of her imagination who go suckie suckie in the night.

That is the funniest fucking statement I have read maybe ever. ::controlling urge to make lewd comments about things going suckie suckie in the night::

Can't type laughing toohard

[witchchild]

I haven't read it yet, as I'm not quite awake. However, I find it seriously amusing that the post right under this one was nihilistic_kid talking about seeing Clive Barker. Apparently during the even CB said that an author would be a fool not to take editorial comments.

[sekhmetmeset.livejournal.com]

All I can say is WOW

Being an Anne Ricean. . .gosh. . .even I will admit that's just whacked.

((HUGS))

[rekhet.livejournal.com]

The quality of Rice's work has been declining over the years, as has her mental state as well! lol

[pseudo-kemetic.livejournal.com]

The lack of paragraphs - it Burns!

When I was a wee lass, I used to love her books.. Interview, Lestat, and Queen. Then, I just couldn't read her any longer. And now? It seems like quite a bit of dross.

She, my dear sister, has most definately lost it. Totally.

[lady-sekmet.livejournal.com]

Ann Rice has always been a little ya-ya in the mental department. This just proves that she's completely lost her mind. =]

[ex-ulfhedna.livejournal.com]

All the best writers are a tad wacky. I defend my dear akh and role model Robert E. Howard in this department...and yet even old Bob knew he couldn't earn the love and admiration of everyone. I think he cared deep down, but he never stood up and howled and screamed bloody murder at his detractors. Anne's commentary-sans-paragraph-breaks struck me as extremely immature. I haven't seen such histrionics since my last trip to usenet and the seventh grade. ;)

[pointycat.livejournal.com]

Shades of how Thomas Harris bragged about not letting his editors touch a single word of "Hannibal" -- anyone who suffered through that book understands how important editors are to the writing process... :)

IIRC, Robert Heinlein also went the no-editor route late in his career, and if you compare his early work to what he was putting out towards the end, it really shows there as well.

[desertphile.livejournal.com]

I eventually liked her "Sleeping Beauty" trilogy, though I had to learn to understand what she was writing and why. I read "Ramses the Damned" and thought it was "okay."